Catholics will accept a common date for Easter in the East and West, pope says

[chevyontheriver]

You don't see Orthodox in The Ancient Way referring to Sedevacantists as Catholics.

I don’t stick my nose where it doesn’t belong and don’t care what is said in TAW. I expect nothing of any conversation over there and do not consider it my duty at all to go ‘correcting’ anything in TAW. I have been gently, too gently I guess, trying to remind you all that is not your place in this forum.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I have never come across what you describe. My family attends a Greek parish and a Russian parish. Our Russian parish recently ordained a new priest who is Greek. We also have Ukrainian friends who belong to the canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine. They regularly attend the Russian Church. They left Ukraine due to persecution from the schismatic, so called "Ukrainian Orthodox".

Less than a century ago you had German and Irish Catholics who would have nothing to do with each other.

Then you haven't been following the war in Ukraine.

The Russian Orthodox and Ukrainian Orthodox

Orthodox Church split: Five reasons why it matters​

Orthodox Church split: Five reasons why it matters

Ukraine is pulling churches away from Russia's grip - a very sensitive issue in the current conflict.

www.bbc.com

A friend of mine is Antioch Orthodox, originally from Lebanon.

When he got married, the wedding ceremony was held in a Greek Orthodox church, which he had to rent
and the priest from his church was not allowed to do the celebration. Of course there was no Mass
in the wedding ceremony, but there were Greek hymns and prayers. He had the ceremony there,
because his own church was too far from where the couple would be living.

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

A friend of mine is Antioch Orthodox, originally from Lebanon.

When he got married, the wedding ceremony was held in a Greek Orthodox church, which he had to rent
and the priest from his church was not allowed to do the celebration. Of course there was no Mass
in the wedding ceremony, but there were Greek hymns and prayers.

Antiochian EASTERN Orthodox? If so then why would there be a "mass"???

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Antiochian EASTERN Orthodox? If so then why would there be a "mass"???

So, there's no Mass at an EO Wedding?

 

[Yeshua HaDerekh]

So, there's no Mass at an EO Wedding?

No. Weddings are usually preformed after Divine liturgy so the bride and groom would have already attended. It includes the Service of Betrothal and the Service of Crowning. The ceremony includes the bride and groom drinking wine from a common cup. It is very Hebraic. The couple circle 3 times (in Jewish weddings the bride circles the groom 7 times). At the end, Old Testament blessings are said. To the groom: "Be thou magnified O Bridegroom, as Abraham, and blessed as Isaac and multiply as Jacob. Walk in peace and work in righteousness, as the commandments of God". To the bride: "And thou O Bride, be though magnified as Sarah, glad as Rebecca and multiply like unto Rachel, rejoicing in thine own husband, fulfilling the conditions of the law, for so it is well pleasing unto God".

 

[prodromos]

Then you haven't been following the war in Ukraine.

I am well aware of the war in Ukraine. I am also well aware of who is behind it.

 

[prodromos]

A friend of mine is Antioch Orthodox, originally from Lebanon.

When he got married, the wedding ceremony was held in a Greek Orthodox church, which he had to rent
and the priest from his church was not allowed to do the celebration. Of course there was no Mass
in the wedding ceremony, but there were Greek hymns and prayers. He had the ceremony there,
because his own church was too far from where the couple would be living.

There's probably more to the situation than you or your friend have let on as there is no canonical division between Greeks and Antiochians. My granddaughter was recently baptised in our Greek parish. The priest who baptised her is Serbian Orthodox.

 

[WarriorAngel]

May all of Heaven pray for the unity, through Jesus Christ.

 

[RileyG]

May all of Heaven pray for the unity, through Jesus Christ.

Amen!